Help:Making animations for Powerpoint

From Proteopedia

Any molecular scene in Proteopedia (or any Jmol website) can be converted to a rocking or spinning animation for presentations, such as Microsoft Powerpoint, free Google Slides, or free Libre Office.

Proteopedia has a built-in mechanism to make a presentation-ready animation. Simply click on Export Animated Image below the molecular scene. You can also export a static image there.

In January, 2018, Proteopedia's mechanism is somewhat limited. The animations are jerky and will perhaps be smaller than you wish. An alternative is to make an animation of a Proteopedia scene using FirstGlance in Jmol.

Making presentation-ready animations in FirstGlance in Jmol version 2.7 (released January 8, 2018) is easy, and the animations will rotate more smoothly and can be larger (hence clearer).

If you want to animate a molecular scene that you first obtain in FirstGlance in Jmol, then you don't need the methods below. The capability is built into FirstGlance: see the snapshot in step #7 below (in Method I). The methods below are only for generating an animation in FirstGlance from a scene in Proteopedia.

Procedure

Display the desired molecular scene. Then:

Right click near the top of JSmol to open the JSmol menu. Click on Console.

Enter write "filename.spt" (where "filename" is something descriptive) in the lower part of the yellow-framed JSmol Console box that opens. Be sure to include .spt as the last 4 characters of the filename.

Click OK in the file save dialogs. The file will be saved in the location specified in the preferences of the browser you are using.